Ch.14 - Chemical Kinetics
Chapter 14, Problem 142
A 0.500 L reaction vessel equipped with a movable piston is filled completely with a 3.00% aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide. The H2O2 decomposes to water and O2 gas in a first-order reaction that has a half-life of 10.7 h. As the reaction proceeds, the gas formed pushes the piston against a constant external atmospheric pressure of 738 mm Hg. Calculate the PV work done (in joules) after a reaction time of 4.02 h. (You may assume that the density of the solution is 1.00 g/mL and that the temperature of the system is maintained at 20 °C.)
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The rate constant for the first-order decomposition of gaseous N2O5 to NO2 and O2 is 1.7 * 10-3 s-1 at 55 °C. (a) If 2.70 g of gaseous N2O5 is introduced into an evacuated 2.00 L container maintained at a constant temperature of 55 °C, what is the total pressure in the container after a reaction time of 13.0 minutes?
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The rate constant for the first-order decomposition of gaseous N2O5 to NO2 and O2 is 1.7 * 10-3 s-1 at 55 °C. (b) Use the data in Appendix B to calculate the initial rate at which the reaction mixture absorbs heat (in J/s). You may assume that the heat of the reaction is independent of temperature.
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For the thermal decomposition of nitrous oxide, 2 N2O1g2S
2 N21g2 + O21g2, values of the parameters in the Arrhenius
equation are A = 4.2 * 109 s-1 and Ea = 222 kJ>mol. If a
stream of N2O is passed through a tube 25 mm in diameter
and 20 cm long at a flow rate of 0.75 L/min at what temperature
should the tube be maintained to have a partial
pressure of 1.0 mm of O2 in the exit gas? Assume that the
total pressure of the gas in the tube is 1.50 atm.
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You may have been told not to mix bleach and ammonia.
The reason is that bleach (sodium hypochlorite) reacts with
ammonia to produce toxic chloramines, such as NH2Cl.
For example, in basic solution:
OCl-1aq2 + NH31aq2S OH-1aq2 + NH2Cl1aq2
(a) The following initial rate data for this reaction were
obtained in basic solution at 25 °C
What is the rate law for the reaction? What is the
numerical value of the rate constant k, including the correct
units?